Hi! > > > The irq9 one is really irritating (hey, ACPI almost always is). I thought > > > it would be something as simple as the wrong polarity or something, but > > > nope.. > > > > BTW what is wrong with mac mini? I asked original reporter to boot > > noacpi and nosmp, and he told me it will not boot in any of those > > cases. At that point I basically called that machine terminally > > broken. Is it supposed to be PC-compatible? > > It's _not_ supposed to be PC-compatible. It just happens to be close > enough that we can ignore the differences. Aha, okay. So it basically needs special config to work, and complaining that it does not boot noapic is not helpful. > And btw, the reason it didn't resume originally was because _we_ did > things wrong. The PCI command word mustn't be writen before the rest of > the config space has been restored (one of the things I used my debugging > patches for, until I noticed that -mm had the same fix independently, so > that's the one that is merged right now ;) Yes, right, this was Linux's fault. > The fact is, Linux suspend/resume to RAM has been broken for as long as I > can remember. I finally got fed up, and started debugging it. Unlike > laptops (which I only use when travelling), I hope to make a MacMini like > system my main one (well, I'm going to wait for Conroe/Merom, and the > current one goes to Patricia or Tove, but the point is that small is > beautiful, and that machine is one of the few desktops I know is supposed > to do STR fine, and where it makes sense to do so). Actually s2ram used to work for quite long time... with video needing userspace hacks. Just some compaq evos are problematic :-) [acpi problems, and firmware has definitely some problems, too]. Thinkpads tend to be rather good. (suspend.sf.net has video parts.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
